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1 Aug 2019 - 1 Sep 2021 – online

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Hydrogeology Bundle: Part 2 Groundwater Recharge Rate Estimation using 1D Unsaturated Numerical Model

Understanding groundwater recharge is essential for the successful management of water resources and modeling fluid and contaminant transport within the subsurface. Hydrogeologists, water-resource specialists, civil and agricultural engineers, earth and environmental scientists will benefit from this self paced online course.

After this course you are going to be able to set up monitoring network for soil moisture and potential and to model rainfall infiltration and its movement in deeper part of vadose zone where eventually it will become groundwater recharge - so you are going to be able to precisely determine groundwater recharge rate.

Course Topics:

What is soil texture and how to determine it quickly
In depth explanation of soil water content and soil water potential
Devices to measure volumetric water content and soil water potential
Instalation and maintaince of devices measuring volumetric water content and soil water potential
How to determine soil water retention curve - basis for getting unsaturated hydraulic parameters for numerical model
Getting unsaturated hydarulic parameters from soil retention curve
How to set up 1D numerical simulation of soil water movement including ol hydrological water balance elements
Groundwater recharge rate determination

Who should attend?

This course is ideally suited for hydrogeologists, environmental engineers and climate change experts who are diving into the use of groundwater numerical models to make informed decisions about water balance of the region and contaminant movement from ground surface to aquifers.

Prerequisite:

B.Sc in hydrogeology, geology, environmental engineering, agriculture, civil engineering

Time Commitment:

Average 2 - 3 hours per week to finish each Module. We encourage you to spend time with the course each week. Your focused attention will pay off in the end!

If anything seems unclear or you just have a question, then please let me know - I will get back to you as soon as possible, usually less then 24 hours. After each lecture you have place to ask questions. Again, thank you for joining me on this course.

Price: 360 USD

Organised by Environmental Modeling Solutions.

https://groundwater-modeling.teachable.com/p/groundwater-recharge-estimation-using-unsaturated-models support@advancedgwt.com
1 Sep 2019 - 1 Sep 2021 – online

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Hydrogeology Bundle: Part 1 Gentle Introduction to Analytic and Numeric Groundwater Modeling

Environmental Modeling Solutions is pleased to offer Accelerated On Line Training course - Gentle Introduction to Analytic and Numeric Groundwater Modeling. The course offers a flexible and cost-effective way to learn basic of groundwater flow and contaminant transport modeling both with analytic element modeling with AquiferWin32 and numerical modeling with MODFLOW, MODPATH and MT3DMS and PEST on the end.

From model development to model calibration, you will learn fundamental techniques to build a defensible groundwater model. Until now more than 90 students have applied and finished this course!

After this course you will be able to build up to medium level complexity steady state groundwater 3D models.

Course Topics:

Background theory and applications of ground water models
Conceptual model development using borehole stratigraphy and pumping test analyses
Grid design and optimization
Selecting boundary condition types and effects of each
Examining the effects of heterogeneity and impacts of rivers
Simulating multiple aquifer systems with irregular layer elevations
Contaminant transport processes and simulations
Calibration of groundwater flow models
Prediction and visualization of results in 2-D and 3-D

Who should attend?

This course is ideally suited for hydrogeologists, geologists, climate change experts, environmental and agriculture engineers who are diving into the use of groundwater analytic and numerical models to make informed decisions.

Prerequisite:

B.Sc in hydrogeology, geology, environmental engineering, civil engineering or similar...

Time Commitment:

Average 2 - 3 hours per week to finish each Module. We encourage you to spend time with the course each week. Your focused attention will pay off in the end!

If anything seems unclear or you just have a question, then please let me know - I will get back to you as soon as possible, usually less then 24 hours. After each lecture you have place to ask questions. Again, thank you for joining me on this course.

Price: 275 USD

Organised by Dragan Kaludjerovic, PhD.

https://groundwater-modeling.teachable.com/p/modflow_mt3dms_accelerator support@advancedgwt.com
1 Sep 2019 - 1 Sep 2021 – online

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Hydrogeology Bundle: Part 3 Seawater Intrusion Modeling – How to Set up, Run and Visualize with SEAWAT Numerical Model

Due to rapid urban development, climate change, intense agriculture and other factors shallow unconfined aquifers in a lot of coastal regions have become highly vulnerable to contamination from sea water intrusions.

The SEAWAT program is designed to simulate variable-density ground-water flow and solute transport in three dimensions. The underlying concept of SEAWAT is to combine an existing flow code (MODFLOW) with an existing solute-transport code (MT3DMS) to form a single program that solves the coupled flow and solute-transport equations.

One benefit of the SEAWAT approach is that improved and updated versions of the flow and transport codes can be incorporated into the SEAWAT program to take advantage of recent improvements. Another benefit is that users familiar with the constant-density versions of the flow and transport codes can easily apply the SEAWAT program to variable-density ground-water problems.

Course topics:

Set up 3D conceptual model in MODFLOW with 11 layers
Assign both MODFLOW and SEAWAT boundaries (for seawater intrusion model)
Properly set up different parameters in SEAWAT
Run the transient SEAWAT seawater intrusion model
Visualize results in 3D
Learn which groundwater sampling method works the best in coastal zones influenced by seawater intrusion?
Learn what are typical groundwater discharge rates in coastal zones around The World - compare it with your model to validate it.
Analyzing local and regional SEAWAT model for water resources management - case study from USGS (United States Geological Survey)

Who should attend?

This course is ideally suited for hydrogeologists, environmental engineers and climate change experts as an additional skill to make informed decisions in coastal zones.
Prerequisite:

B.Sc in hydrogeology, geology, environmental engineering, civil engineering.

Time Commitment:

Average 2 - 3 hours per week to finish course. We encourage you to spend time with the course each week. Your focused attention will pay off in the end!

If anything seems unclear or you just have a question, then please let me know - I will get back to you as soon as possible, usually less then 24 hours. After each lecture you have place to ask questions. Again, thank you for joining me on this course.

Price: 159 USD

Organised by Environmental Modeling Solutions.

https://groundwater-modeling.teachable.com/p/set-up-run-and-visualize-3d-saltwater-intrusion-model-with-seawat-in-visual-modflow support@advancedgwt.com
26 Jun 2021 - 26 Jun 2023 – Online

Other Training

SYMPLE – School of Hydrogeological Modeling

Data Anaysis, Hydrogeology, Numerical modeling, Calibration, Uncertainty Analysis. SYMPLE proposes a School of Hydrogeological Modelling hosted by professionals and academics. The course will blend theory with practice in ways that our unique industry requires. Such courses are comparatively rare and urgently needed.

The traditional workflow begins with field investigations, proceeds to the building of a conceptual model, and then seeks to build an often too complex numerical model on that basis. The underlying principle of this old approach is that we can deterministically simulate what happens under the ground. This is a demonstrably erroneous premise. The “traditional” method has been leading us to widespread distrust of what modelling can achieve.

SYMPLE intends to promote and facilitate the understanding, use and evaluation of hydrogeological numerical models through a multidisciplinary program (the School) associated with the use of strategies aimed at solving specific problems (project-related strategy).

Development of better strategies to address existing and pressing problems just requires the same data and software mostly already available (PEST and PEST++ suites), but a new mindset. And in many cases the modelling will be quicker and less expensive because it is:

- management targeted;
- no more complex than it needs to be to serve the decision-support demands;
- supported by project-related strategies with associated specific software.

That is, modelling will be complex enough to assimilate data and reduce uncertainty, but strategically simple because it is decision-focused.

Price: https://hydrosymple.com/en/pricing/

Organised by SYMPLE.

https://hydrosymple.com/en/programme/ info@hydrosymple.com
2-27 Aug 2021 – Uganda

Other Training

Groundwater Development School

Groundwater Supply. The Groundwater Development School is a 4-week comprehensive training programme in Uganda that educates graduates and water professionals on how to develop a groundwater supply. The course provides a holistic approach to groundwater supply and includes every aspect of siting, developing, managing, and monitoring a groundwater source. This is combined with a hands-on experience learning and working professionally with local contractors and a partner charity as a 'live' project to provide an appropriately sited and constructed borehole to a community.

The Groundwater Development School is a response to the high rates of borehole failure and a technical capacity gap that exists in the sector. There is a high demand and great necessity for these skills to improve sustainable water supply outcomes and this course will be hugely beneficial for those wishing to develop careers in the Humanitarian, Development and WASH sectors.

Groundwater Relief (GWR) has multiple years of experience in training groundwater professionals in borehole construction with one off drilling training courses in Bangladesh, Myanmar and several other countries. GWR founded the annual drilling school in the UK with RedR and Cranfield University. Years of feedback from course attendees has helped GWR create the Groundwater Development School syllabus in Uganda to provide a comprehensive hands-on training programme that will set participants up to thrive in this sector.

GWR’s core staff and our global volunteer membership of over 350 groundwater experts have undertaken over 100 projects in the last 5 years, with some of the world’s most vulnerable people, providing direct technical support to a range of partners including International Organisation for Migration, Oxfam, Medecins Sans Frontieres, and the British Red Cross.

On 24th March at 1pm (GMT) there is a webinar to explain further detail and answer any questions. More details about the course and the link to the webinar are on the website https://groundwater-relief.org/services/supporting-groundwater-professionals/groundwater-development-school.

Price: £3900 per person, covers 4-week training course, accommodation, food, internal transport and course consumables. Excluding flights, vaccinations, visas.

Organised by Groundwater Relief.

https://groundwater-relief.org/services/supporting-groundwater-professionals/groundwater-development-school admin@groundwater-relief.org